Sentences with phrase «of the food chain pays»

He must have learned something in those fake classes, like how being at the top of the food chain pays well.

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In doing so, fast - food chains have become a lot like the Instagram influencers who get paid thousands of dollars a post to sell a certain kind of lifestyle via social media.

Over the last two years, the movement has brought national attention upon the issue of minimum wage, with a special focus on how much fast - food chains pay workers.

That tack paid off as the advent of big natural - foods chains turned out to benefit — not harm — even tiny players in the $ 48 - billion nutrition industry.

As McDonald's moves to boost pay for its company - owned U.S. restaurants — about 90,000 workers or roughly 10 percent of its locations nationwide — the question now is whether pressure will mount for the fast food chain's franchises to follow suit.

Fast - food workers from McDonald's and other chains on Wednesday are participating in the latest in a series of national protests calling for higher pay and better working conditions.

As the «pay for work» practice is especially prevalent at the commodity - sourcing level of the food supply chain, the «No Fees» initiative initially focused on promoting ethical recruitment in palm oil and seafood sourcing, and has now scaled up to include companies in the electronics, apparel, and extractives sectors.

Alibaba launched Hema, its digitized physical supermarket chain where shoppers use a mobile app for online orders and in - store purchases of groceries or freshly prepared foods, as well as research products while shopping and pay digitally or with facial recognition.

The significant levels of «rebates and discounts» paid by food manufacturers to large supermarket chains and retailers for stocking products on shelves are also laid bare in the prospectus and are as high as 14 per cent of gross revenues.

Except at the very top of the food chain, schools can't afford to pay more than they already do.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

In reality the level of compensation paid to farmers for cattle prematurely slaughtered due to TB runs to around # 30 million a year, over # 10 million of which is recovered by the Treasury as a result of the sale of TB meat into the food chain, without labelling or traceability.

Yes, members (and people, cats, Tories etc who paid three quid) are important but they aren't higher up the political food chain than MPs who are elected by thousands of voters and nor should they be.

Labor advocates say they want the state of Connecticut to tax companies that pay low wages to their employees, companies like big box retail stores and fast food chains.

Governor Cuomo, at a large union rally in NYC's Union Square to raise the minimum wage, called out fast food chains McDonalds and Burger King by name and accused them of «corporate greed» for under paying workers.

After hearing testimony from dozens of fast - food workers, the board members decided the state should mandate that fast - food chains pay more.

In July, the wage board recommended that large fast - food chains pay their workers $ 15 an hour by 2019 in New York City and mid-way through 2021 in the rest of the state.

The chain of coffee shops publicizes its efforts in social responsibility, but pays money to an industry advocacy group that actively opposes your right to know what is in your food.

February 25, 2016 • When you pay for a meal at a fast food chain, such as McDonald's or KFC, most of the time your money is divided between two different businesses.

I'm new to the ramifications and specific processes involved, but am pursuaded this is the likely model for future publication projects that most benefit the first person on the food chain: the writers / artists who conceived them, who are trying to make some kind of living doing what they do best, hoping to find an audience for their work as a * first * resort rather than wearing themselves out with full - time day jobs of no comparable skill or education preparation — but that pay the bills, maybe — and that leave little energy and reserves for their art.

I was sort of surprised when in the early 90s the Jewel food chain in the Chicago area went on the gov's Green Lights program, got a low interest loan to change all their conventional tube lights to ones with reflectors and electronic ballasts (reducing lighting electricity by 3/4 & saving the food chain $ 1 million per year, paying off the loan within the 1st year), that they didn't use that as a marketing strategy: «Jewel cares about the Earth!»

Apple has introduced Apple Pay, their new mobile payment system, and with it, a laundry list of retailers, fast food chains, markets and other business partnered up with the plan.